Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 04:48:56 EST 2005


Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>

Hello Christoph,

> I think re-ordering will be a very rare use case anyway and slicing even
> more. As a use case, I think of something like mixing different
> configuration files and default configuration parameters, while trying
> to keep a certain order of parameters and parameters blocks.
>

In actual fact - being able to *reorder* the dictionary is the main way
I use this dictionary.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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> -- Christoph




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